Real life update: well, it stopped raining, and the tide is retreating. [If you have no idea what I'm talking about, I made a f-locked post three days ago, but I removed the really personal info and made it public now.]

The Washington Post has an update that's more or less sound. Death toll this morning is 223 state-wide, with the majority of ( Read more... )

The more I read the news and watch the TV the worst it feels -- the inadequacy, the impotence, the hopelessness. Just go to Google News and search for "Niterói" and... yeah.

Okay, I'll give you two links:

- Deadly mudslides in Rio expose Brazil's inequality. The one text in English I could find that sort of explains how it is to live here [ ( Read more... )

This post has been in the making for the last five days. I've been having issues finishing thoughts lately. BLAMING IT ON TWITTER.

Anyway. Thoughts on the FOX upfronts:

. FOX has officially canceled Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. GODFUCKINGDAMMIT I HATE EVERYONE AND EVERYTHING RIGHT NOW. The Washington Post has a Dollhouse-related ( Read more... )

Amazon Rank /googlebombing because the Smart Bitches are awesome.

If you don't know what's going on: Amazon.com has stripped sales ranks from most GLBT books. Their excuse is that they're excluding "adult" material from searches and best seller lists. GRRR. List of books already affected.

Twitter is ahead of the revolution: #amazonfail. Keep ( Read more... )

Last night I dreamt that Corin Nemec was the eleventh Doctor, and I discovered it because he bent the time-space continuum in front of me on my grandmother's dining room ( Read more... )

Spaceballs: The Animated Series. [!!!] Why didn't anyone tell me about this? You're all fired.

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Another SG-1 fic rec: Let Go and Hold On, by Rachel500. Jack/Sam, post Threads, with some great ties to Grace, Moebius and even the Ori stuff. Also filled with A LOT of team-y goodness, which is always a bonus.

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4. Dear darling weather. Would you PLEASE decide if you want to be Winter or not? Because there's NO WAY I can fight off this neverending flu if you keep changing on me. I'm freaking allergic to this city, man.

3. Of the things that make me SAD: I'm gonna skip SMG's latest movie because there is no other writer in the world that I HATE more than ( Read more... )

MASSIVE HEADDESK DAY ZOMG GAH.

SO. Anyone around can open a Corel Draw file and convert it to JPEG or TIF or anything that Photoshop will recognize? Pretty please? Say so and I'll give you a download link. It's kind of urgent.

[SIGH.]

It's still raining like a motherfucker with no end in sight, traffic has gone so crazy authorities are on TV begging people not to leave their homes and yeah, this will sound so shallow I wanna kill myself for saying it, but the worse of it all is that Feist has canceled her show tomorrow [for health issues, the poor girl, but still. Gah ( Read more... )

Today is the very sad day in which Joanna Newsom is playing in São Paulo and I'M NOT THERE.

Life sucks.

/woe